County Resources
Leicestershire
Shelf Mark: LE
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-C | D-K | L-R | S-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials for Leicestershire include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Leicestershire [&] Rutland parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 1999 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National index of parish registers, vol. 6 part 3, Leicestershire & Rutland. London: SoG, 1995. [TB/PR] SoG on-line bookshop.
Handlist of Leicestershire Bishop's Transcripts: Guide to Leicestershire Record Office collections, no. 4 [Typescript.]. Rev. edn. [LE/R 99]
Handlist of Leicestershire parish register transcripts [1973] [Shelf 9 (LE/REG)]
Index of places named in Phillimore's Leicestershire Marriages, vol. 5 [LE/R 69]
List of Leicestershire parish registers prior to 1890 [LE/R 15]
A list of parish register copies held at the library of Leicester University [Box 38/folder 17R]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at FamilySearch.
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Leicestershire & Rutland strays marriage index [containing] over 13,000 marriages of couples who strayed out of the counties of Leicestershire & Rutland [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet]
Leicestershire parish registers: index to the Bishops transcripts in the registry of the Archdeaconry of Leicester, 1561-1700, embodying the Leicestershire transcripts in the registry of the Bishop of Lincoln prior to 1700 [LE/R 15]
Leicestershire register transcripts: various extracts jotted down while examining such records, which are a little unusual or outstanding: Leicestershire registers, vol. 1 [Typescript.] [LE/R 87]
List of Nottinghamshire residents married in Leicestershire extracted from the Leicestershire Marriage Index 1801-37: Nottinghamshire Family History Society records series, vol. 88: Miscellany, no. 2 [Shelf 9]
Out of area collection 1, 1975-76 [UK/REG]
Some Leicestershire clandestine marriages [1586-1685] with index; Additions to Phillimore’s Leicestershire marriages: Quaker notes & marriages; Marriage evidences [Photocopy.] [LE/R 16]
Some Leicestershire clandestine marriages, with index & errata [1586-1684]: Leicestershire miscellany [LE/G 25]
Leicestershire & Rutland county burial index vol. 2: B(I) 1813-91 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (LE/REG)]
Leicestershire Quakers [includes ZMB Ext 1646-1837] [Typescript.] [LE/R 20]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Warwickshire, Leicestershire. & Rutland QM : Z 1623-1837, 1636-1815, 1646-1762, M 1648-1837, 1659-1794, 1668-1711, B 1659-1837, 1661-1836, 1636-1781 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3375]
Quaker records: Leicestershire & Rutland; index to ZMB registers, non-parochial registers, distribution of Quakers in Leicestershire, sufferings of Quakers: in Leicestershire Quaker records [Typescript.] [LE/R 19]
An extract of Shropshire marriages from the Digest of Registers 1657-1836 of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Hereford, Worcester & Wales General Meeting & Supplement ... 1655-1837, Cheshire & Staffordshire Meeting [Computer printout.] & An extract of marriages of persons of Shropshire origin from the ... registers 1646-1837 of ... Quakers: Warwickshire, Leicestershire & Rutlandshire meetings (supplement) [Computer printout.] [Box 55/folder 39]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.
Leicestershire marriage licences 1570-1609 [Photocopy.] [LE/R 93]
An index to the names of females appearing in the abstracts of Leicestershire marriage bonds & allegations for marriage licences, 1570-1729 : reprint from the Associated Architectural Societies' reports & papers, 1904-08, vol. 27, 28, 29 [LE/R 92]
Leicestershire marriage licences, being abstracts of the bonds & allegations for marriage licences, preserved in the Leicester Archdeaconry Registry, 1570-1729: British Record Society, vol. 38 [BRS 38]
Leicestershire Marriage Licences 1570-1729 - indexes to British Record Society, vol. 38 [Photocopy.] [LE/R 98]
Leicestershire marriage licences 1580-1609 : surnames A-M [Typescript.] [LE/R 94]
Leicestershire marriage registry licences etc. 1679-88 [Typescript.] [LE/R 97]
Some Leicestershire marriages by licence 1679-86: Leicestershire parish registers, vol. 14 [Typescript.] [LE/R 14]
Leicestershire yearly marriage licences 1730-48 : archdeaconry & the peculiar court of St. Margaret Leicester [Typescript.] [LE/R 95]
Leicester Archdeaconry 1749-1861 index of marriage licences ... males alphabetically arranged yearly [Typescript.] [LE/R 96]
Leicester (St. Margaret): marriage licences granted by the Prebendal Court 1730-48 (males alphabetically arranged), 1749-1803 & 1804-80 (males arranged alphabetically yearly [Typescript.] [LE/R 82]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
The history of Market Harborough, with that portion of the Hundred of Gartree, Leicestershire, with an account of ... the churches, monuments, etc. [Store A folio shelves]
The history of the parish of Langton, with that portion of the Hundred of Gartree, Leicestershire, containing the parishes of Great Bowden, Blaston, Carlton, Cranoe, Foxton, Glooston, Gumley, Hallaton, Ilston, Kibworth, Smeeton, Slawston, Shangton, Staunton, & Welham ... [Store A folio shelves]
The incised slabs of Leicestershire & Rutland prefaced by a brief manual of incised slabs [LE/M 10]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
LEICESTERSHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
LEICESTERSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or LEICESTERSHIRE - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at 1837-online
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
LEICESTERSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Leicestershire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Ab Kettleby cum Holwell | Allexton | Anstey | Appleby Magna | Arnesby | Asfordby | Ashby de la Zouch | Ashby Flamville | Ashby Folville | Ashby Magna | Ashby Parva | Aston Flamville | Aylestone with Glen Parva & Lubbesthorpe | Barkby | Barkestone | Barsby | Barleston | Barrow on Soar | Barwell | Beeby | Belgrave | Belton | Billesdon & Rolleston | Birstall | Bitteswell | Blaby | Blackfordby cum Boothorpe | Blaston | Bottesford | Bowden, Great | Branston | Braunstone | Breedon on the Hill | Bringhurst with Drayton | Brooksby | Broughton Astley | Broughton, Nether | Bruntingthorpe | Buckminster | Burbage | Burrough | Burrough on the Hill | Burton Lazars | Burton Overy | Cadeby | Carlton Curlieu | Carlton | Castle Donington | Catthorpe | Clawson, Long | Claybrooke | Claybrooke Magna | Cold Overton | Coleorton | Congerstone | Cossington| Coston| Cotesbach| Countesthorpe | Cranoe | Croft | Cropston | Croxton Kerrial | Croxton, South
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Leicestershire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Dadlington | Dalby, Great or Dalby Magna | Dalby, Little or Dalby Parva | Dalby, Old | Dalby on the Wolds | Desford | Diseworth | Dishley & Thorpe Acre | Dunton Bassett | Earl Shilton | Easton, Great | Eastwell | Eaton | Edmondthorpe | Enderby | Evington | Fenny Drayton | Fleckney | Foston | Foxton | Freeby | Frisby on the Wreake | Frolesworth | Gaddesby | Galby | Garendon | Garthorpe | Gilmorton | Glen, Great | Glenfield | Goadby | Goadby Marwood | Grimston | Gumley | Hallaton | Harby | Harston | Hathern | Heather | Higham on the Hill | Hinckley | Hoby | Horninghold | Hose | Hoton | Houghton on the Hill | Hugglescote cum Donington le Heath | Humberstone | Hungerton with Baggrave, Quenby & Ingersby | Husbands Bosworth | Ibstock | Isley Walton | Ilston on the Hill | Kegworth | Keyham | Kilby | Kilworth, South | Kimcote with Walton | Kirby Bellars | Kirby Mallory | Kirby Muxloe | Knighton | Knipton | Knossington
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Leicestershire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Langton | Langton, East | Langton, West | Laughton | Leicester | Leire | Lockington | Loddington | Loughborough | Lowesby with Cold Newton | Lubenham | Lutterworth | Market Bosworth | Market Harborough | Markfield | Measham | Medbourne | Melton Mowbray | Misterton | Mountsorrel | Mowsley | Muston | Nailstone | Narborough | Netherseal | Nevill Holt | Newbold Folville | Newton Harcourt | Newtown Linford | Normanton le Heath | Norton by Galby | Norton, East | Norton juxta Twycross | Oadby | Osgathorpe | Owston with Newbold Saucy | Packington | Peatling Magna | Peatling Parva | Peckleton | Pickwell | Plungar | Prestwold with Burton on the Wolds & Cotes | Quenborough | Quorn | Quorndon | Ragdale | Ratby | Ratcliffe Culey | Ratcliffe on the Wreake | Rearsby | Redmile | Rotherby | Rothley
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Leicestershire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Saddington | Saltby | Sapcote | Saxby | Saxelby with Shoby | Scalford | Scraptoft | Seagrave | Shackerstone | Shangton | Sharnford | Shearsby | Sheepy Magna | Shenton | Shepshed | Sibbesdon | Sibson | Sileby | Skeffington | Snarestone | Snibston | Somerby | Sparkenhoe | Sproxton | Stanton under Bardon | Stapleford | Stathern | Stockerston | Stoke Golding | Stonesby | Stoughton | Stretton, Great | Sutton Cheney | Swepstone | Swinford | Swithland | Syston | Theddingworth | Thornton with Bagworth | Thorpe Arnold with Brentingby | Thorpe Langton | Thorpe Satchville | Thrussington | Thurcaston | Thurlaston | Thurmaston | Thurnby with Bushby | Tilton | Tilton on the Hill | Tugby | Tur Langton | Twycross | Twyford | Waltham | Waltham on the Wolds | Walton on the Wolds | Wanlip | Wartnaby | Welham | Whatton, Long | Whetstone | Whitwick | Wigston Magna | Willoughby Waterless | Wistow | Withcote | Woodhouse | Wycombe & Caldwell | Wyfordby | Wymeswold | Wymondham
